Improved material for paint



WW fitatw gem ensa WILLIAM H. HUBBARD,

12mm Patent No. 88,715, dated 4pm 6, 1869.

INIPROVED -MATERI.AL FOR PAINT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame To all whom it ma concern Be it known that I,WILL1AM H. HUBBARD, ofWest Meriden, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Paint; and I do hereby de clare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has for its object a new paint which shall be very muchcheaper than lead, yet possessing qualities of coloring in itself whichlead does not; and

The invention consists in a new article of manufacture for paint, formedfrom peat, by drying and grinding into a powder, and then adding oilthereto, or not, as the case may be. v I

In order to the-clear understanding of my invention, I will proceed tofully describe .the same.

I take peat as it comes from the earth, and after thoroughly drying, Igrind it to a powder, thns thoroughly combining and mixing all thevegetable and earthy matter contained in the peat. I then, in anordinary paint-mill, grind the powdered peat with oil, when it is readyfor use in like manneras lead and oil, the cost of the peat beingcomparatively nothing, and producing an article of nearly the same bodyas the lead From different soils, the peat obtained is a differentcolor. In some cases, the finest possible black is obtained; in others,a red or reddish brown, but generally producing a beautiful madderbrown.

Thus prepared, the paint is treated in like manner as lead andoil-paint, and possesses none of the poisonous, or injurious qualitiesof lead, an important feature, when the health of the painter is takeninto consideration.

The peat, when thoroughly dried and groundbecomes an article ofmanufacture, with or without oil, in like manner as ordinary white lead.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described paint, prepared by the process, substantially asset forth, as a new article of manufacture. 7

WM. H. HUBBARD.

Witnesses A. J. TIBBITS, J SHUM'WAY.

